Apple retail creator Ron Johnson says AI shopping agents will enhance online buying but cannot replace stores, arguing consumers will still want to handle devices and compare displays before spending $1,000 to $2,000 on a laptop.
Google opens U.S. preorders for the $899 Googlebook AI laptop ahead of its October 4 retail launch, pairing Android and desktop Chrome with Magic Cursor, Gemini Live, and 12 months of Google AI Pro with 5TB storage.
Meta’s Muse surges to No. 1 overall on the U.S. App Store, logging 1.8 million iOS downloads in its first 12 days in the U.S. and Canada—outpacing ChatGPT’s 1.3 million at the same stage.
Meta’s Muse AI becomes the top free U.S. iPhone app ahead of ChatGPT, but Amazon blocks it over concerns it could capture customer credentials and scrape account data.
Google launches Googlebooks, Android-based laptops starting at $899 that retain ChromeOS while centering Gemini features such as Magic Pointer, Rambler voice-to-text and Create My Widget; HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and ASUS models are available for U.S. preorder ahead of October 4 availability.
Google Labs launches CC, an experimental AI household agent that lets up to six U.S. family members share daily briefs, update calendars and tasks from emails, and complete permission slips or shopping lists through verified Google accounts.
Perplexity now adds Light, Standard, High, and Ultra effort controls to Computer, automatically selecting models and reasoning depth while higher settings use a coordinating AI to delegate work across agents from different providers.
Google opens early access to its Home MCP server, allowing compatible AI agents to control Nest, Matter and Works with Google Home devices and review event history, initially for U.S. Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers paying $20 monthly.
Mozilla launches the Firefox Smart Window beta with Mistral AI models in France and North America, offering tab-based answer sourcing and past-search retrieval while defaulting to no server-side conversation storage.
Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an AI service for iPhone, Mac and its Specs glasses that learns users’ routines to offer proactive help, with a US iOS preview and a $2,395 glasses-and-Verizon-enabled charging-case bundle before wireless fees.